Ecstatic Naturalism: Signs of the World

by Robert S. Corrington

Book Overview

Semiotic theory, which has restricted its focus largely to human forms of significations, is transformed by Robert S. Corrington into a semiotics of nature itself. Corrington situates the divide between "nature naturing" and "nature natured" within the contest of classical American pragmaticism and postmodern psychoanalysis. At the heart of this new metaphysics is an insistence that all signs participate in larger orders of meaning that are natural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253314410
• ISBN13: 9780253314413
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher